Re: pkg/43602: ruby18-base won't install

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43602; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/43602: ruby18-base won't install
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:01:30 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:35:02PM +0000, Steven Bellovin wrote:
  >> The fact that it prints "*** Error code 1" without actually reporting
  >> any errors leads me to suspect that something failed that ordinarily
  >> shouldn't and (given that PR 43600 shows similar symptoms, and I can't
  >> reproduce it either) also to wonder if you have something corrupted on
  >> your system somewhere...
  >>
  >  
  >  I certainly can't rule that out -- per kern/42104, I've certainly had
  >  file system adventures.  I will note that I did just rebuild very many
  >  packages without (other) incident.  I can build a new system, though
  >  this doesn't really seem to be the best time to try today's kernel.  I
  >  can also delete all packages and rebuild everything, perhaps after
  >  running 'fsck -f'.  Any other suggestions?  (Well, I guess that memtest
  >  is always in order.)
 
 Those all seem awfully drastic... although I guess fscking can't hurt.
 Also try cvs update in pkgsrc/mk and make sure nothing's marked
 modified that isn't supposed to be.
 
 Another good diagnostic step would be to run the install with
 PKG_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 to see what's actually failing. That may make the
 problem obvious.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost